'Handbook of Yemen'

IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14

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The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Content

The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).

The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:

  • Area;
  • Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
  • Population;
  • Districts and Towns;
  • Agriculture and Industries;
  • Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
  • Political;
  • Yemen Army Corps;
  • Tribal Notes;
  • Personalities;
  • Communications;
  • Routes.

The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.

The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).

Extent and format
1 volume (91 folios)
It is grouped into
Arrangement

There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.

Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).

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English in Latin script
Type
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British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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Unrestricted

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IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14
Former external reference(s)
H 58

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1917 (CE, Gregorian)

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